Images from Lundy 2014

Having now sifted through all of my photographs from our recent field trip I thought I should present some of them.

The east coast of Lundy stretching northward.

A Chiffchaff in brambles on the lower east coast path of Lundy, just south of the Heligoland trap.

A Linnet, not far from the Chiffchaff above.

This Wheatear popped up right in front of me as I was ascending a steep portion of the lower east coast path, heading north.  A brief visit but just long enough for me to take this.

This Robin was in full song in one of the smaller quarries.  He was facing a flat stone wall, replying to another singing a little way south.  I did wonder whether he was making use of the wall as an amplifier.

Natural surveillance - a Peregrine watching all below from the top of an east coast granite stack half way up the island.

This dung beetle is working hard on freshly processed spring sward - photographed on the west coast path near to Jenny's Cove.

The same individual as above walking away from the task.  The beetle did this repeatedly - it would work to move the dung, forcing its whole body beneath it until we would lose sight.  It would then emerge and walk away in a meandering pattern, only to return.  Eventually it did leave the site.  

Ants processing a live woodlouse.

A single ant dealing with the same woodlouse as above.

Looking south down the west coast, the Old Light just visible.

Early morning looking north along the west coast.

A Meadow Pipit foraging in wetlands just north of the Earthquake on the west coast.

Soay lambs - there were a good number of multiple births this year, and consequent mortality.

We came across a Soay ewe licking the second of its newborns just moments after giving birth.

A pair of migrant Wheatears passing through and foraging before moving on.

The Sika deer are increasingly bold year on year.  Here are a group in one of the few patches of trees on the east coast.